"'My heart stopped beating. I wished I could have died at that time, but maybe God didn't want me to die,' Gul said. Qandi sat close to her mother, her hazel eyes peering shyly from beneath her sky-blue headscarf. 'Each time I remember that night ... I die and come back to life. It was so difficult.'"
"She asked her husband why he did it."
"'He said he wanted to sell one and save the others. 'You all would have died this way,' (he said.) I told him, 'Dying was much better than what you have done.'"
"Gul rallied her community, telling her brother and village elders that her husband had sold her child behind her back. They supported her, and with their help she secured a 'divorce' for her child, but only on condition she repays the 100,000 afghanis (about $1,000) that her husband received."
~ Elena Becatoros
"Desperate Afghan families..."
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